3/25/2016After a relatively mild winter, Merri and Lance are getting ready to start a new family. Merri is now spending more time around and inside the nest box, so we can expect to see the first egg real soon.

4/22/2014UMass Lowell’s athletics teams and even its mascot, Rowdy, have been known as River Hawks for two decades, a tribute to the birds of various species who, like the university, call the banks of the Merrimack River home.

6/14/2013
Since 2007, a pair of peregrine falcons has called UMass Lowell’s East Campus home. This spring, they successfully hatched two chicks inside a gravel-filled wooden nest box mounted on the roof of 18-story Fox Hall.